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Lydia Ko turned 17 last week, banked 270 large and was feted by Time magazine along with Pope Francis, Rand Paul, Beyonce, Hillary Clinton, Pharrell Williams, Angela Merkel and Matthew McConaughey. Good luck with an encore there, ey? "It's just a really special week for me," Ko understated Sunday after winning the unfortunately named Swinging Skirts LPGA Classic in San Francisco. Ko and a vast majority of the LPGA Tour's top players are scheduled to compete May 15-18 at the Kingsmill Championship. If anyone ever questioned Ko's place among the circuit's elite, surely they don't now. Born in South Korea and residing in New Zealand, Ko was the first...

During a media session prior to the February 2009 Super Bowl between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Arizona Cardinals, Steelers coach Mike Tomlin pointed at me and said, "You owe me for getting you a week's vacation in Tampa."
Tomlin was right....

WILLIAMSBURG — The LPGA Tour has produced beaucoup drama at Kingsmill, from Annika Sorenstam’s farewell victory in 2008 to a record nine-hole, two-day playoff in 2012 between Jiyai Shin and Paula Creamer.As if that doesn’t set the bar high enough for next...

WILLIAMSBURG — After spending 109 weeks as the top women's golfer in the world, getting used to the view from anywhere other than No. 1 has been a chore for Yani Tseng.
It's been more than a year since Tseng was considered the best on the planet. Since...

WILLIAMSBURG — Lydia Ko's cell phone rang the other day, from an unknown number. The New Zealand teenager thought about letting it go to voicemail, but decided to answer.
On the other end was countryman and professional golfer Michael Campbell, a...

The season's first major complete, the LPGA Tour is off this week — no sense competing with Bubba, Tiger and Augusta — as players prepare for a three-tournament stretch that concludes May 2-5 at the Kingsmill Championship.
Since the circuit's September...

WILLIAMSBURG — Katie Burnett will not win the LPGA's Kingsmill Championship. Not with this impeccably credentialed leaderboard. Not with seven of the world's top-25 players in her midst entering Sunday's final round.
But as the likes of Cristie Kerr,...

A world-class leaderboard, extended Sunday television coverage, average crowds and a continued sponsor search marked last weekend's LPGA Kingsmill Championship.
"I thought we had good crowds," Wayne Nooe, Kingsmill's director of golf, said...

Women’s professional golf is set to return to Kingsmill in 2014 and beyond.
The Williamsburg property’s two-year contract with the LPGA expired after May’s Kingsmill Championship as tournament organizers, per a directive from the resort’s parent company,...

The LPGA’s Kingsmill Championship is secure for another four years, the resort’s owner and the tour announced Tuesday, answering persistent questions about the future of women’s professional golf in Williamsburg.
Kingsmill has hosted nine LPGA...

Change filled the sporting landscape in 2013. Some was gradual and incremental, some sudden and profound.
Familiar faces were gone, familiar schedules and relationships transformed perhaps for good. How well people and organizations adapt and adjust...

WILLIAMSBURG — In the eight years the LPGA has played at Kingsmill, the champion has always been a major winner.Paula Creamer and Jiyai Shin, who will resume their playoff on Monday after darkness halted it after eight holes on Sunday, both have major...

Nancy Lopez was the first, an electric 21-year-old who had commandeered women's golf. So a buddy and I sneaked onto the Pine Ridge course in suburban Baltimore and watched Lopez dust the field for the third victory of her rookie season.It was May 1978,...

After a two-year hiatus, the LPGA will return to Kingsmill Resort in Williamsburg. The $1.3 million Kingsmill Championship is scheduled for Sept. 6-9 -- the week before the Women's British Open.
Kingsmill played host to the LPGA for seven years, from...

Of course Cristie Kerr loves Kingsmill. She played seven LPGA tournaments at the Williamsburg resort, winning twice, posting three other top-10 finishes and earning $953,610. Nearly a million bucks for 28 rounds of golf? It's not Tiger-in-his-prime coin,...

LPGA at Kingsmill: A brief history
Oct. 12, 1992: After a 14-year run on Southside, tournament organizers disband Hampton Roads' LPGA event. The 1993 edition had been scheduled to shift to the Peninsula, at Kiln Creek.
March 1, 2002:...

Monday's media gabfest for the LPGA Kingsmill Championship was impeccably timed. The symmetry was accidental, but ideal nonetheless.Here's why: This week the LPGA Tour returns to Toledo for the Jamie Farr Classic, for 26 years among the circuit's most...

The Kingsmill Resort was built on beer. Anheuser-Busch purchased nearly 4,000 acres along the James River in 1969 primarily to house the brewery that continues to cranks out suds. Adjacent to the brewery, close enough to smell the suds fermenting,...

Less than two years before Mike Whan took over the LPGA Tour, Annika Sorenstam retired. Less than six months into his tenure, Lorena Ochoa followed suit.Losing such icons — Sorenstam is arguably the greatest female golfer of all-time, and Ochoa is as...

The old friends didn't miss a beat. They'd been apart for years, but it was as if they'd been texting, Skyping and/or calling daily.The fit was that seamless.Kingsmill officials reminded us all that they still know how to stage a first-rate golf...